The left-wing violence of the 1970s was horrific. The most infamous extremist group was the Weather Underground—which issued a "Declaration of War" against the U.S. government in 1970. They bombed the Pentagon. They bombed the State Department. They bombed the U.S. Capitol.

And then? Many of them simply...waltzed right back into mainstream liberal society. Worse, actually: They were given positions of power and prestige in the defining mainstream institutions. White-shoe law firms. Cushy book deals. Ivy League professorships. The whole nine yards.

Take Kathy Boudin—a Weather Underground terrorist who was sentenced to 20-years-to-life for her role in a 1981 Brink's truck robbery in New York, in which she helped her accomplices execute two policemen and a security guard in cold blood. She was granted parole in 2003.

By 2013, Kathy Boudin was an adjunct professor at Columbia University School of Social Work—where she co-founded and co-directed the "Center for Justice"—and a scholar-in-residence at NYU Law School. Boudin died in 2022. Columbia memorialized her in glowing terms:

Her son, Chesa Boudin, was elected as the notoriously far-left District Attorney in San Francisco in 2019, backed by—surprise, surprise!—George Soros. Since Kathy was in jail, Boudin was adopted and raised by Weather Underground co-founders Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

Bill Ayers played a leading role in planning and directing the Weather Underground attacks on the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, and the State Department. Decades later, he told the New York Times: "I don't regret setting bombs.'' In fact, ''I feel we didn't do enough.''

Ayers became Professor of Education at University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2008, he was elected vice president for curriculum studies at the American Educational Research Association. In other words: This is the person who was training the teachers that teach our kids.

Oh, and guess whose political career was launched in Ayers' and Dohrn's house? The 44th president of the United States. Barack Obama’s first-ever campaign event—launching his 1995 State Senate run—was held in the living room of Ayers and Dohrn.

Bernardine Dohrn—herself another Weather Underground co-founder who oversaw the massive bombing campaigns and terrorist attacks—was hired by the elite law firm Sidley & Austin. Later, she was hired as a professor at Northwestern Law School—where she taught for over 20 years.

The examples go on and on. As I've said before, the radical Left of the 1960s-70s didn't disappear—they simply took over mainstream institutions: Academia, the media, the NGOs, etc. The radical Left didn't lose—they won, by becoming the mainstream itself. https://x.com/Eric_Schmitt/sta...

@Eric_Schmitt And help launch the political career of one certain US president.

@Eric_Schmitt If you guys haven't read 'Days of Rage' by Bryan Burrough, it's a must-read. He chronicles the far-left Marxist terrorism that transpired in the 1970s, and it's eerily similar to what we're experiencing now. The Marxists are on the rise again, folks. Be on high alert.

@Eric_Schmitt One is even the mayor of LA.

@Eric_Schmitt @AuronMacintyre Uh @grok are all the figures cited in this thread of Jewish descent? And give me a breakdown of the Jewish representation in the key Weather Underground figures

@Eric_Schmitt But....we need to control the guns! After the OKC Fed building bombing, was involved in a project to tag explosives to track, trace and deter future bombings. Tagged ammonium nitrate fertilizer, built an anfo bomb and blew up a Ryder truck full of anfo to simulate OKC.

@Eric_Schmitt Karen Bass was one of those responsible.

@Eric_Schmitt So... they're brilliant people who truly believe in something.

@Eric_Schmitt @ grok is this true?

@Eric_Schmitt @russ62960450 Weather Underground was one and those folks were Obama buddies

@Eric_Schmitt I never had a clue. Nobody, not me, not my parents, and not my grandparents, and none of my aunts, uncles, or cousins, knew anything. If we had known, trust me, just like w/JFK it woulda been discussed at least a little bit.

@Eric_Schmitt What will you do, Senator, to prevent the current left wing violence we see today?

@Eric_Schmitt And their kids are in charge of the dem party.

@Eric_Schmitt Same bunch trying to burn it down now. They've just reached the pinnacles of power

@Eric_Schmitt We American were never Warned bcz the RINOs are part of the globalist agenda. Until Reagan!

@Eric_Schmitt @KurtSchlichter I member when I was a kid my dad drove through UM in the twin cities to see the bombed out buildings

@Eric_Schmitt Schmitt is still a RINO.

@Eric_Schmitt That's an absolute fact. Look where we are today as a result.

@Eric_Schmitt the violence must end!!

@Eric_Schmitt @AuronMacintyre MAKE VIGILANTISM GREAT AGAIN!

@Eric_Schmitt We can't make the same mistake this time around. These people must be taken entirely out of circulation. Otherwise, we will have another 2020 in 25 years, and this time it may be fatal. We have to put leftism in the ground once and for all.

@Eric_Schmitt Admit that you are a paid subscriber to the Conundrum Cluster and Mystery Grove

@Eric_Schmitt @KurtSchlichter One happened in Pittsburgh

@Eric_Schmitt @KurtSchlichter When they should have been

@Eric_Schmitt The enemy from within.

@Eric_Schmitt … and they are desperate

@Eric_Schmitt @BonifaceOption @kirar96 yo this is wild